{"id":3897,"date":"2020-12-27T10:49:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/?p=3897"},"modified":"2020-12-29T07:09:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T14:09:20","slug":"a-new-understanding-of-a-old-proverb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/spiritualreligious\/a-new-understanding-of-a-old-proverb","title":{"rendered":"A new understanding of a old proverb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was reading a post by one of the christians who I *do* think understands love &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/thedevilsgift.com\/jesus-shaves-2\/\">Jesus Shaves<\/a> &#8211; and I had one of those sudden moments of connecting the dots.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all heard that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven. But I never really got it in quite the way that I did today.<\/p>\n<p>With the POV that heaven is not a literal place but a state of mind, and the understanding that the &#8220;rich&#8221; on earth are not rich in the sense that I would like to be rich, it makes some sense. Too much can be as much of a burden as not enough, and certainly a obsession with material wealth that can never be filled is a guarantee of a absence of happiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was reading a post by one of the christians who I *do* think understands love &#8211; Jesus Shaves &#8211; and I had one of those sudden moments of connecting the dots. We&#8217;ve all heard that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3906,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions\/3906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}